Marion Mirehouse

Funeral Services will be Saturday, January 6, 2024, at 10:30 am at the Arnold Funeral Home in Arnold, NE with Pastor Lee Wonch officiating, followed by interment in the Garfield Cemetery on Garfield Table. Memorials in Marion’s name may be given to Garfield Cemetery c/o Craig Smith 32910 E Kramer Rd, Arnold, NE 69120, or to NOVA Library Foundation, c/o Kimberly Gross, Alexandria Campus Library, 5000 Dawes Ave, Alexandria VA 22311. A visitation will take place on Saturday, January 6^th from 8:30 am until service time at the Arnold Funeral Home in Arnold. Govier Brothers Mortuary of Arnold are in charge of arrangements. Words of encouragement may be left at www.govierbrothers.com.

Marion M (Auble) Mirehouse was born June 3, 1933, at the farm home of her parents, Myron and Frances (Miller) Auble on Garfield Table in Lincoln County, Nebraska, and was the youngest of 5 children.

Marion attended Garfield Elementary School and graduated from Logan County High School in 1950 with a 3^rd grade Elementary certificate which allowed her to teach in rural schools. 

After teaching for a couple of years and attending Summer School, she returned to the Nebraska State Teachers College in Kearney where she obtained her Bachelor’s Degree in 1955.  The following school year, encouraged by a friend who was teaching in Sunrise, WY, she moved there to teach 6^th grade.

On August 1, 1956, she married her long-time sweetheart James (Jim) Mirehouse, who had just completed pilot training in the U.S. Air Force.  Jim became a fighter pilot and over the years as a military wife Marion had the opportunity to live in many states and foreign countries.

In 1977 Marion moved to Annandale, Virginia to be closer to her sister who lived in Maryland.  Marion became a librarian at the Alexandria campus of the Northern Virginia Community College where she enjoyed working until her retirement in 2013. 

During her time in Annandale she was a member of many mission trips with her church group to help with rebuilding and revitalizing communities including after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, storms in Haiti, etc.  She loved working with her hands, crafting, creating, crocheting/knitting, and became pretty skilled with construction tools.  She was a very accomplished and independent person with a very giving heart.

After her sister passed away, she moved to Kearney Nebraska in 2015 to be closer to family members and close friends living in the area.

Marion was 90 when passed away on December 31, 2023, at the Mother Hull Home in Kearney.  She is survived by nieces Dale (Wayne) Huss of Lincoln, NE, and Cheryl (Quentin) Yada of Grand Island NE, a nephew Miles Auble of Dandridge, TN, numerous great nieces and nephews, and close friends Jerry and Marlene McKean

She was preceded in death by her parents, a brother, Elroy Dean, who died in infancy, her brother Vic and wife Reta, her brother Wendell and wife Violet, her sister Floy and husband Garth Summers; 2 nephews, Lee Auble and Allan Summers, and a niece, Charlene Summers.

A close friend spoke of Marion as the Nebraska Prairie Girl.  She is now going back to be laid to rest in the peaceful prairie of Nebraska.